IN DEVELOPMENT

A new collaboration between Lab Kelpie’s artistic team Lyall Brooks and Adam Fawcett, A World of Our Own is a new solo performance piece exploring the dichotomy of social isolation often inherent in lifelong monogamous relationships.

A deeply personal work with resonating universal themes, A World of Our Own is inspired by the idyllic lyrics of The Seekers song of the same name and informed by our own bond as both creative and personal partners in a long-term, childless relationship.

We want to ask the uncomfortable question: why should we invest fully and completely into a relationship, if the return is likely to be inconsolable grief?

Told through the eyes of a man whose terminally ill wife has just died halfway through their journey across Australia, A World of Our Own will explore this love/time investment strategy by weaving laterally through topics as diverse as astronomy, mammalian sociology, Australian geography… and the right way to gut a fish.

Creative Development of this work was supported by the Bluestone Church Arts Space and Maribyrnong City Council in February 2018.

Lyall Brooks

Co-creator & Performer

Adam Fawcett

IN DEVELOPMENT

A new collaboration between Lab Kelpie’s artistic team Lyall Brooks and Adam Fawcett, A World of Our Own is a new solo performance piece exploring the dichotomy of social isolation often inherent in lifelong monogamous relationships.

A deeply personal work with resonating universal themes, A World of Our Own is inspired by the idyllic lyrics of The Seekers song of the same name and informed by our own bond as both creative and personal partners in a long-term, childless relationship.

We want to ask the uncomfortable question: why should we invest fully and completely into a relationship, if the return is likely to be inconsolable grief?

Told through the eyes of a man whose terminally ill wife has just died halfway through their journey across Australia, A World of Our Own will explore this love/time investment strategy by weaving laterally through topics as diverse as astronomy, mammalian sociology, Australian geography… and the right way to gut a fish.

Creative Development of this work was supported by the Bluestone Church Arts Space and Maribyrnong City Council in February 2018.